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Basketball Player Liz Martin '09 Scores 2,000th Point

Senior guard Liz Martin '09 picked a great night to score
her 2,000th career college point on February 21, 2009 - scoring her fifth point of the game
against Bluefield College
in her regular season finale, and on a Senior Night that would honor her and
teammate Natalea Gulyas. Martin finished with 21 points in leading Covenant to
a 73-60 victory.

Martin, from Moon Township, Pennsylvania,
and Moon Area
High School, played her freshman
season at Seton Hill
University, where she scored 302
points and finished eighth in the nation in steals.

After transferring to Covenant
College for the start of her
sophomore season, Martin has used her three seasons on Lookout
Mountain to statistically rank as
one of the greatest Lady Scot basketball players of all-time. The 5'4" point
guard led the nation in assists her sophomore season, while finishing second in
the nation her junior year. This season, as only one of three returning players,
Martin has been called on to score more, averaging 23.13 points per game, good
for fifth in the nation in scoring among NAIA Division II players.

In addition to her scoring, Martin is ninth in the nation in
three-point field goals made per game (3.1), 15th in assists per game (4.97),
and 48th in steals per game (2.52). The Lady Scots completed their regular
season winning five straight games, to finish with a 17-12 record overall, and
an 11-7 mark in the Appalachian Athletic Conference.

For her Covenant College
career, Martin's 1,715 points ranks sixth on the Lady Scots' all-time scoring
list, and she is third in points averaged per game. She ranks second in career
assists and assists averaged per game; third in free throws scored; fourth in
three-point field goals made; and sixth in steals, steals averaged per game,
and free throw percentage. Martin ranks ninth in field goals made and 11th in
three-point field goal percentage.

"Liz Martin has obviously had a tremendous three-year career
as a Lady Scot, and is one of the all-time great players," said Covenant
women's basketball coach Roy Heintz. "Her play has resulted in us being in the
Top 25 the last three years, but most importantly she has been a spiritual
leader within our program, while performing at a high standard in the classroom,
earning AAC All-Academic honors."

"Liz has personified the kind of young lady that we want in
our basketball program, and in our athletic department. She is a fierce
competitor that competes with great sportsmanship. Liz has been our hardest
worker in practice, which has demonstrated to our young players and recruits
the work ethic it takes for excellence at the intercollegiate level. She has
performed at a very high level. I've felt very honored to coach her."

The Lady Scots now advance to the quarterfinals of the
Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament.

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